It’s time to look into getting different geometry into our scene. In the Vulkan version of StaticRectangle, I was using obj files for meshes and a 3rd party library called tinyobjloader to load them. This was fine for that application because the size of the files wasn’t much of a Read more…
At the end of my last blog post StaticRectangle was rendering ‘the illustrious spinning cube’. We had a bunch new components, like the camera controller, input / resource manager as well as a top level Application that took ownership of some processes away from the Renderer. The next thing to Read more…
By the end of my last post, I had a very boring hot-pink “StaticRectangle”. I gave my wife a demo who was as enthused about a hot-pink rectangle as you can imagine. I showed her all the code it took to produce that rectangle. Her honest response was “why?” I Read more…
I spent some time messing around with WebGL trying to render some better looking 3d mazes, which I have no doubt you can do. There are plenty of examples of WebGL being used to make some captivating 3d content and that challenge is enticing. However, it wasn’t long until I Read more…
Not a faithful recreation. I believe the Microsoft one was following the left-hand rule solver (and right when you flipped upside down), which means the mazes must have been ‘simply connected’ or ‘perfect mazes’. There isn’t the topsy-turvy geodesic shape, psychedelic fractals, OpenGL logos, Smiley Face end-point or… rat either. Read more…
Probably a surprise to no one, but while going through the maze generation exercise I thought it would be nice to display a maze in 3d. There is (though I haven’t gotten to it yet) an entire section of the Mazes for Programmers book dedicated to generating mazes that wrap Read more…
Apparently my last devblog entry was just over 3 years ago today, and… well, a lot has happened in that time. Professionally, I moved from supporting and writing tools for animators in Maya, of which I had years of experience, to supporting and writing tools for FX artists in Houdini, Read more…
I took a break from the renderer as the next step involves getting render passes setup so I can render shadows and do fun stuff like post processing etc. This poses two problems for me.. Once I get started, I won’t have a lot to show for a while because Read more…
You know that thing you do when you’re learning something new, so you make every mistake under the sun and / or massively over complicate / engineer things? Yeah, I did that. As I mentioned in my last post, I did get textures working – but there was a large Read more…
Now we’re all caught up, I reached a bit of a milestone yesterday. I managed to get textures loading and I’m fairly happy with the solution for now. This one is a milestone for me because I really wasn’t sure how to organise my resources, so the “final” design was Read more…